Pick your own topic! Just try to stay within the topic of utopian and dystopian thought.
Also, some of the additional books we read included:
1) Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent, eds., The Utopia Reader, Second Edition (New York:
NYU Press, 2017).
Susan Bruce, ed., Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia, New Atlantis, and Isle of the Pines (New York: Oxford, 1999)
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2022).
4) Com Led in, The Dispe a least: On Ambiguous topia (1974; New York: HarperCollins,
5) Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, foreword by Kathy Acker
(1976; Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1996)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985; New York: Anchor, 1998)
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993; New York: Grand Central, 2021)
If possible, try to include Plato’s republic and Thomas More’s Utopia in it.
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